Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ned Slider wrote:
The more I think about this, and in relation to the whole WebSite2
vision, I'm wondering if a simple static page at www.centos.org is all
that may be needed combined with wiki.centos.org for content/docs etc,
forums.centos.org, MLs and IRC for support, and
projects.centos.org/trac for the other stuff.
as has been repeatedly pointed out on this list and other places, that
is not going to happen unless there are certain benchmarks met. I dont
see any effort towards that at the moment, so no - that wont be
happening anytime soon.
i'd be happy to work with any group of people who want to setup and run
a documentation sub-sig that address's the issues of content navigation
and content management from both sides : (1) the project and (2) the
distro. Both of which are very different from each other.
At least with a simple static front page that say what the project is
all about and links to the important areas it's not something that
needs updating and thus isn't a burden on those who can least afford
the time plus then the Wiki editorial group could take on much of the
rest hopefully freeing up the core devs to do what only they can do.
The Wiki could host much of the content that's currently on
www.centos.org.
Actually no. the wiki is incapable of hosting more than 15% or so of the
content in www.centos.org - but if you think that more can be moved
over, I'd like to hear how you worked that out :D
Hmm, OK, how about we try that the other way around - what is the 85%
that couldn't be hosted on a Wiki? I'm thinking maybe the news and
announcements section probably isn't best suited to a Wiki (a CMS
solution would probably be more preferable), but then there's been like
one post a year ago, one in early 2005 and a few from 2004 (in
Centos.org news) plus the usual announcements. Maybe a blog (Planet
CentOS) style page could handle some of that type of content?
Please don't get me wrong Karanbir - I'm not having a go, it's just that
IMHO the whole site looks dated and to an extent unmaintained. That's
NOT in any way intended as a criticism of the core devs as we all know
the devs have more important things to do... like produce a first class
distro, and only so much free time to donate to the project in which to
achieve that hugely important task. So to me this seems like an area
where core devs could delegate some of the responsibility to others who
have the time and would like to contribute but aren't necessarily highly
skilled programmers/packagers etc. Is there a way the process could be
opened up that allows others to contribute who do have the time and want
to help?
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